Now, JER, sweeten it up a bit, do! You know that in this area CC gets rejected a lot. We don’t want her to feel demoralized, etc. etc., so for goodness sakes,,,,well for our sakes really, be gentle! Add some flowery words, some ..ers. and …uhms…and …thinkaboutits, before getting to the ‘no’! :roll:

Missed it – stepped out for a couple of minutes. Will go back and check, although I try hard to steer clear of the naughty mat myself. :grin: I suspect I might have been one of those who probably snickered when others got in trouble in primary school.

As other nations are graduating Scientists, Engineers, etc…..USA since the GOPers were able to take over many state houses and the House of Rep……starting in 1994…..Okay since Reagan…..in 1980 with the senate under the GOP…….US has been going down the hill.

Actually I heard that guns are still banned in the Capitol building where the legislators work in GA. If they are giving them free reign in churches, schools and bars why not where the lawmakers work too?

Right wingers, who claim to be “holier than thou” Christians, are trashing the teachings and message of Jesus Christ! Jesus taught/teaches love, compassion for the poor and the oppressed, and peace; right wingers, who claim to be Christians, are teaching hatred, hostility towards the poor and the oppressed, and violence.

Thanks, Chips, NW and JER for keeping TODville up-to-date on the goings on in Japan today.

The time zone (and International dateline) differences really complicate things for someone like me who is not a natural at figuring out what time it is on the other side of the world (but if you type: time: tokyo [or wherever you’re interested in] in Google, it responds immediately with the current time).

I think tonight’s press conference will be held at noon in Tokyo, so hopefully President Obama won’t be feeling the effects of jet lag too badly (he is a night owl, after all).

Dudette provided a link to this article this morning. Tonight’s state dinner (assuming it begins at 8pm local time = 5 am EDT, 2 am PDT) will be the first Japan has hosted for an American President since Bill Clinton in 1996 — the Japanese took GWBush’s warning (fool me once, fool me twice, etc.) to heart, after his poppy embarrassed everyone who was paying attention.

Pres Obama last visited #Japan prior to Mar 2011 earthquake/tsunami. Japan last state dinner for POTUS was 1996 (WJC)
http://t.co/SxQGlqyLhH

“President Barack Obama—for the first time as an incumbent U.S. president—clearly stated the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture are subject to Article 5 of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, in a written reply to questions submitted by The Yomiuri Shimbun.”

President Obama clearly states the Senkaku Islands are subject to Article 5 of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty. http://t.co/6i6IIL2cTJ

Hay Donald Trump, how do you like President Obama now? Looks like a President, oh heck he is the President. Something Donald Trump will never be. You know I think Trump problem with POTUS is POTUS won’t give him the time of day. Trump started off defending POTUS, I remember Trump saying that he doesn’t know how anyone could expect Obama to fix the big mess G.W. Bush left this country in overnight. Next thing I hear Trump was a birther. I’m sure Trump thought he would have been invited to the White House several times by now, not once.

Hopefruit, he’s irritating, but I actually give Knoller some credit for not being as quick to block those who call him out as some others are. As for that Cook guy, I gave up on him last time because he seems to contradict himself more than once in his own tweets. At least he did the last time we had that ‘long’ conversation about PBO, and he was seemingly unaware of the contradictions! I have been busy so I haven’t seen him since; I thought he had more or less given up.

The Japanese love to have their children wear hats, which makes them even more adorable. I remember post-earthquake/tsunami photos of survivors in evacuation centers and seemed most of the little ones had on hats.

It just does my heart good to see Caroline Kennedy representing our country so beautifully, and taking part in these meetings with PBO.

I well remember her as a little girl, so loved and adored by the country. Her mom and dad would be so proud, and at my age, part of the Kennedy generation, I kind of feel like a proud mom seeing her doing so well. She has her father’s smile.

On Thursday, President Obama will visit the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo and deliver remarks at an event for youth in science. Tune in here to watch the remarks, starting live at 2:10 am ET.

I took a peek at the link and saw this oh-so-appropriate quote, the truth of which Hillary’s supporters obviously don’t ‘get’. I don’t know when she may have said it, and wouldn’t waste the time to check it out; how.ever. I’m going to hang on to it to reuse sometime when they start to hype her up more.

“Every moment wasted looking back,
keeps us from moving forward…..
In this world and the world of tomorrow,
we must go forward together,
or not at all.” ~ Hillary Clinton

I also glanced quickly down the tweets in the visible TL, and nothing they are hyping suggests that Hillary has done anything ‘outstanding’. For the life of me, I cannot envision her doing any of the meaningful stuff PBO has been doing behind the scenes vis a vis real meaningful governing.

Pity in one sense. Since you don’t want to give him any attention I guess you can’t tell him if he’s ‘ready for Hillary’, he’s too far behind in politics to interest you. He needs to get with the 21stC programme.

I got the Ready for Hillary campaign funding request in the mail last week. It had a current photo of Bill, Chelsea and Hillary in it. I opened it and threw it all away. I may end up voting for her in a GE, but am not excited, nor do I intend to donate. I will be sending my donations for our Presidents library fund.

For it to be deterred the only actions, imo, that might work are for President Obama and the EU to enact truly massive sanctions. Because, the only folk who have the capacity to stop Putin are Russian oligarchs who don’t want their wealth and life style compromised.

“Last Friday evening, the Russian Security Council met. In attendance were 12 men — almost all of whom are around 60 years old and who once worked in the KGB in St. Petersburg — and one woman. Many have speculated that they might have agreed on a plan to invade eastern and southern Ukraine after Putin revived the term “Novorossia,” or New Russia.

None has significant economic insights. In the U.S., by contrast, the slightly larger National Security Council includes several economic officials, starting with the treasury secretary because the U.S. considers national security decisions economic issues as well.

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If Russia’s National Security Council had invited one of the country’s many good economists, it would probably have heard that Russia is in no shape to carry out an aggressive war in Ukraine.”

Getting set up to watch the press conference, it’s only 8:04 here, so we are in a comfortable time zone for tuning in. I don’t tweet, so cannot provide any updates for you all. Hope my bandwidth is fast enough! Bbl.